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Called your mom? Put on your pants? There's a merit badge for that
By now, you've probably heard the word 'adulting.' Essentially, it describes the skills and behaviors you need to survive as an adult in the real world, skills they generally don't teach you in school.
Clearly spotting a trend, the companyWinks for Days-- which specializes in embroidered, iron-on patches they proclaim "cater to the quirky, serve the snarky, and sell to the stylish" -- is offering a line of adulting "merit badge patches."
Like their Girl and Boy Scout namesakes, which celebrate the acquisition of a particular skill -- swimming, first aid and the like -- Winks for Days' line of adulting patches includes accomplishments like "minded my own business," "responded to emails," "only watched one episode" of a show on Netflix, "avoided confrontation," "paid bills on time," "walked the dog" -- you get the idea.
There's also "abandoned my shopping cart," as in shopping online but not giving in to the temptation to buy what you don't need. Many of the patches set the bar for successful adulting pretty low, like "made coffee," "on time for work," and even "put pants on."
There are 30 adulting merit badge patches so far, sold in sets of three for $14.50 each. Winks for Days also offers embroidered patches ofpopular emoji.
You might think your parents are the very people to teach you how to adult, but apparently it's not happening as much as it should. Some schools and universities are even offering courses in how to adult, including things like managing a budget, handling taxes and so on. And they're pretty popular: a University of California Berkeley course on adulting is so in demand, theyhad to turn away over 200 student applicantsthis spring semester.
Study: 20-Minute Walk May Wake Brain Up Like Coffee
Some of us can’t imagine starting the day without a cup of coffee in hand, but new research suggests something else that could help us focus and be alert: exercise. According to a newstudy, a quick 20-minute brisk walk on a treadmill could give our brains as much of a boost as our daily cup of Joe.
Researchers from Western University and the University of British Columbia found that both exercise and caffeine improved participants’ accuracy on a test to quickly process and recall information, but people who regularly drink coffee were actually more efficient after a walk than a brew. That’s probably because people who frequently drink coffee tend to build up a tolerance to its effects and those who rarely consume caffeine are more sensitive to its effects.
The research also finds that neither exercise or caffeine were better at improving participants’ reaction time in the tests, but both helped to make them more efficient, sharp, and accurate. And for anyone dealing with caffeine withdrawal, the study shows that 20 minutes of aerobic exercise can ease those symptoms, including fatigue, sluggishness, and lack of focus - they say it works as well as giving them caffeine and doesn’t cause a caffeine crash later in the day.
Source:Insider
Apple Is Offering iPhone Repair Housecalls- Apple is now offering iPhone repair house calls in six U.S. cities.
The new service requires customers to schedule a repair on the company's support site and so far services seem to be limited to screen repairs. The tech company’s approved repair company Go Tech Services is in charge of the housecalls.
It's available now in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Houston, and Dallas.There aren’t a lot of details about the service, but there is an “onsite visit fee” that may be tacked on.
Source:The Verge
Research Says T47.2 Is The Unhappiest Age and Year of Your Life!
New research by Dartmouth economist David Blanchflower who, after examining data from 500,000 people in 132 countries, pinpointed the exact moment when the majority of people in developed parts of the world feel the most miserable: 47.2. Every lifetime has a U-shaped “happiness curve,” he concludes in the study, which was published in mid-January by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The bottom of that curve, where we’re at our most forlorn, is (at least statistically) always around the same age. “The curve’s trajectory holds true in countries where the median wage is high and where it is not and where people tend to live longer and where they don’t,” Blanchflower wrote in his findings.
- Do you think this is all a state of mind and that we choose to or can be miserable at any age for any reason?
Link:https://nypost.com/2020/02/01/the-worst-year-of-life-is-47-2